The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Maclear, Kyo

Virginia Wolf

32 pp. | Kids Can | March, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55453-649-8 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. When Virginia wakes up with the "doldrums," her sister, Vanessa, tries to help, but nothing works until she suggests that Virginia think of a place where she would be happy. Vanessa then paints this imagined world. The illustrations, showing Virginia's transformation from wolf back to little girl, and of her world from gloom to glad, convey the isolation and chaos of a mind uneased.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2012